Exponential and Logarithm Review Worksheet-1
Exponential and Logarithm Review Worksheet-1
Work all problems on another sheet of paper and show all of your work.
1. If a person invests $310 in an account that pays 8% interest compounded annually, find the
balance after 5 years.
2. Find the value of $1000 deposited for 10 years in an account paying 6% annual interest
compounded monthly.
3. Write an exponential function to model the situation. Then estimate the value of the function
after 5 years (to the nearest whole number).
A population of 390 animals decreases at an annual rate of 9%.
4. A piece of equipment costs $85,000 new, but depreciates 15% per year in each succeeding
year. Find its value after 10 years.
5. If there are initially 2000 bacteria in a culture, and the number of bacteria doubles each hour,
the number of bacteria after t hours can be found using the formula N 2000(2t ) . How many
bacteria will be present after 3 hours?
Evaluate:
1
10. log 2 16 11. log 7
49
Write the equation in exponential form. Write the equation in logarithmic form.
6
12. log 243 729 13. 53 125
5
Expand.
x2 x2
25. log 4 26. log 5
y y3 z
Condense.
1
27. 2log x log 5 28. log 2 log y 29. log5 3log5 y
2
1
30. log 4 x 4log 4 y 3log 4 z 31. log 2 x (2log 2 y log 2 z)
2
x
32. y log5 x 33. y log 1 x 34. y log
5 2
x
1
37. f ( x) log 2 ( x 1) 38. f ( x) 3 x
39. f ( x) 4
4